 Ampleness on reduced components

On a projective scheme, a line bundle is ample exactly when its restriction to every reduced irreducible component is ample. The disjoint union of those components maps finitely and surjectively to the scheme, so finite-surjective descent of the finite pullback of an ample line bundle proves this. The same argument applies to restrictions to any closed subscheme. Thus nilpotent structure does not affect ampleness.